Change is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
More Alan Kay Quotes
-
-
School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAY -
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAY -
The greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAY -
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAY -
This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
ALAN KAY -
Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAY -
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAY -
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAY -
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAY -
And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
ALAN KAY -
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAY -
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
ALAN KAY -
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAY -
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAY -
And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
ALAN KAY